Fellowes Easy Glide Wrist Rest and Mouse Pad

List Price: $34.57 Discount Price: $12.99

Features:

• Optical mouse-friendly mouse pad
• Superior tracking control
• Limits wrist flexion
• Redistributes pressure points for exceptional comfort

Customer Reviews:

Good hard mousing surface with great comfort. [Posted on 2001-10-10]
Dimensions: 10" x 11"
Color I bought: Graphite w/ dark blue mouse pad.
Mouse pad removable/replaceable?: Yes

-The mouse pad is great for what I need, so I gave it my best recommendation.
-It doesn't take up that much desk real estate when compared to my keyboard or monitor, which is a good thing when in college.
-It's great for my carpel tunnel that I have just found out I have. I'm a computer science major and I have to use the computer more than most students. The hard back surface also allows me to do mouse activities on my lap instead of on the desk.
-When the soft surface becomes tiring, I can just turn the pad around and it's out of the way. Only my roommate complains about using it, but mostly he's jealous.
-One recommendation I would put out is that gamers who use optical mice might want to get a 3M mouse pad to replace the pad on the board so that the mouse tracks a little better on games where you might have to move the mouse quickly.
-Anyways, the best mouse pad out there and the best mouse pad I have ever used.

Kind of big for my desk but it does the job [Posted on 2001-11-20]
Thanks to a major flare-up of CTS recently, I found myself in the market for things to ease the stress of daily tasks. I traded my mouse for a trackball, but the angle was still rough on my wrist, so I invested in this item, and within minutes I felt a difference. My wrist rests on a well padded pillow. Mouse users should note that this pillow area swivels easily so you're not always having to readjust your wrist. It holds my hand at a perfect angle for avoiding more damage to the carpal tunnel as well as for using the complicated trackball system I've installed.

The only drawback I see here is that it's very large for my desk as it's set up. I have a shelf which holds keyboard and mouse, and it rolls out for use and back in when I'm finished. On the pad, the trackball is just a bit high for complete clearance so it scuffs the bottom of the desk. And when I'm using it, I have to pull the pad up over the lip of the workshelf in order to have free movement for my fingers. I don't see this being a huge drawback for me, but it bears thinking about before you invest. Personally I think it's well worth the bit of extra trouble not to have numb fingers or pain in my arm all day.

Assuming this item holds up to heavy use, I'd say that it's probably one of the most useful things I've purchased in ages.

Large surface area, easy on my wrists [Posted on 2002-02-03]
I purchased this item several months ago after a lack of keyboard and mouse wrist support left my wrists in braces for a while. Along with this item, I also purchased a Fellowes wrist rest for the keyboard. Using the two wrist rests together, I have not had any new carpal tunnel flare-ups.

I have an optical mouse at home, so I was used to having the entire surface of my desk to use as a mousepad. Switching from that to a more limited space took some getting used to, but this mousepad offers more space than most others that come with a wrist rest. I also like the way the gel part slides around with my hand when I'm moving the mouse.

The reason I gave this item 4 stars instead of 5 is that the gel is a little hard, much harder than my keyboard wrist rest (made by the same company). It's a little less comfortable than it would be if the gel were softer, but it's far, far better than having nothing at all.

No more wrist pain [Posted on 2002-03-04]
I've never really believed in wrist/mouse pads, especially after switching to the MS wireless optical Intellimouse. However, I've been doing a lot of computer use lately, and a lot of coding and mouse use. I started getting pains in my mousing arm, and decided to give a wrist pad a shot.

The Fellowes Easy Glide is excellent. Its wrist pad moves with you but stays fixed to the pad. This forces you to continue using it, and gives you great support. I would recommend this to anyone that does a lot of computer work, BEFORE you start getting wrist pains.

Causes back pains [Posted on 2004-08-28]
This is the first mouse pad I use and maybe I do not know how to use them, but it appears to be too hight for my wrist. As a result, I do not have a good grip of the mouse, and if I manage to, my elbow ends up up in the air making me sit in this crooked position. It all makes me feel a tension in my right upper back and shoulder.

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